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“No, I’m no patriot, nor was I ever allowed to be. And yet, the
country of my childhood lives within me with a primacy that is
a form of love. It lives within me despite my knowledge of our
marginality, and its primitive, unpretty emotions. Is it blind
and self-deceptive of me to hold on to its memory? I think it
would be blind and self-deceptive not to. All it has given me is
the world, but that is enough. It has fed me language, percep-
tions, sounds, the human kind .... no geometry of landscape,
no haze in the air, will live in us as intensely as the landscapes
that we saw as the fi rst, and to which we gave ourselves wholly,
without reservation.”
― Lost in Translation: A Life in a New Language
country of my childhood lives within me with a primacy that is
a form of love. It lives within me despite my knowledge of our
marginality, and its primitive, unpretty emotions. Is it blind
and self-deceptive of me to hold on to its memory? I think it
would be blind and self-deceptive not to. All it has given me is
the world, but that is enough. It has fed me language, percep-
tions, sounds, the human kind .... no geometry of landscape,
no haze in the air, will live in us as intensely as the landscapes
that we saw as the fi rst, and to which we gave ourselves wholly,
without reservation.”
― Lost in Translation: A Life in a New Language
“... Но ме тревожи следният въпрос: щом няма бог, пита се кой тогава ръководи живота человечески и изобщо целия ред на тази земя?
- Човекът сам си го ръководи - сърдито побърза да отговори Бездомни на този, да си признаем, не твърде ясен въпрос.
- Извинете - меко възрази непознатият, - но за да ръководиш, е необходимо все пак да разполагаш с точен план за известен, що-годе продължителен срок от време. Затова позволете да ви запитам: как може човекът да ръководи нещо, щом не само е лишен от възможността да си предначертае план, та макар и за смехотворно кратък срок - да речем, за около хиляда години, но не може да бъде сигурен дори в собствения си утрешен ден?”
― The Master and Margarita
- Човекът сам си го ръководи - сърдито побърза да отговори Бездомни на този, да си признаем, не твърде ясен въпрос.
- Извинете - меко възрази непознатият, - но за да ръководиш, е необходимо все пак да разполагаш с точен план за известен, що-годе продължителен срок от време. Затова позволете да ви запитам: как може човекът да ръководи нещо, щом не само е лишен от възможността да си предначертае план, та макар и за смехотворно кратък срок - да речем, за около хиляда години, но не може да бъде сигурен дори в собствения си утрешен ден?”
― The Master and Margarita
“The mind of man, moreover, works with equal strangeness upon the body of time. An hour, once it lodges in the queer element of the human spirit, may be stretched to fifty or a hundred times its clock length; on the other hand, an hour may be accurately represented on the timepiece of the mind by one second.”
― Orlando
― Orlando
“Три часът. В три винаги е твърде късно или твърде рано за всичко, което ти се ще да сториш. Особен момент от следобеда. А днес е непоносим.”
― Nausea
― Nausea
“It's puzzling to me that so many self-help gurus urge people to visualize victory, and stop there. Some even insist that if you wish for good things long enough and hard enough, you'll get them - and, conversely, that if you focus on the negative, you actually invite bad things to happen. Why make yourself miserable worrying? Why waste time getting ready for disasters that may never happen? Anticipating problems and figuring out how to solve them is actually the opposite of worrying: it's productive. Likewise, coming up with a plan of action isn't a waste of time if it gives you peace of mind. While it's true that you may wind up getting ready for something that never happens, if the stages are at all high, it's worth it.”
― An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth
― An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth
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